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Oracle BI 11g R1 Build Repositories

Description

This course provides step-by-step procedures for building and verifying the three layers of an Oracle BI repository.

Delegates begin by using the Oracle BI Administration Tool to construct a simple repository to address a fictitious company's business requirements. Delegates import schemas, design and build logical business models, and expose business models to users in the Oracle BI user interface. In the process of constructing the repository, delegates learn how to build physical and logical joins, simple measures, and calculation measures. They also learn how to validate their work by creating and running analyses, and verifying query results using the query log.

Delegates then extend the initial repository and learn how to model more complex business requirements, such as logical dimension hierarchies, multiple logical table sources, aggregate tables, partitions, and time series data. They also learn how to implement Oracle BI Server security, manage Oracle BI Server cache, set up a multi-user development environment, and use Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain, and enhance repositories.

Prerequisites

Skills

Build the Physical, Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation layers of a repositoryBuild and run analyses to test and validate a repositoryBuild simple and calculated measures for a fact tableCreate logical dimension hierarchies and level-based measuresModel aggregate tables to speed query processingModel partitions and fragments to improve application performance and usabilityUse variables to streamline administrative tasks and modify metadata content dynamicallyUse time series functions to support historical time comparison analysesSet up security to authenticate users and assign appropriate permissions and privilegesApply cache management techniques to maintain and enhance query performanceSet up query logging for testing and debuggingSet up a multiuser development environmentUse Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain, and enchance repositoriesEnable usage tracking to track queries and database usage, and improve query performancePerform a patch merge in a development-to-production scenarioConfigure Oracle BI to support multilingual environments

Importing a multidimensional data source into a repositoryIncorporating horizontal federation into a business modelIncorporating vertical federation into a business modelAdding Essbase measures to a relational modelDisplaying data from multidimensional sources in Oracle BI analyses and dashboards